i have been writing music since i was 7 years oLD

My father used to work with Kelly Deyong as a record distributor. As a result he wound up with a collection of thousands of vinyl records.  My journey started when as a baby, my mother would place me in front of a set of speakers and play them, from classic to pop and everything in between.   At the age of seven, I realized I had the ability to play instruments by ear. As I learned how to play the guitar, I also noticed I could play anything on the radio without chords or notation. I could just hear it and play it. I could also predict all the top hits on the radio before they became popular, always feeling what made a song special. (Most individuals have to listen to a song 2 or 3 times before they really like it). At the age of eight came the revelation that I could also write music. I could compose a song in a matter of minutes, which was musically OK, however, I realized that while composing, I could search for that special feeling that makes a song catchy. In the early years I was influenced by Spanish and English Pop charts and most recently by Japanese Pop.  When I was 6 my parents sold everything, bought a boat and took my sister and I on a journey to sail across the world.  For more see my Biography Section.  Please visit the Listen Section of my website for my latest songs.  I have written thousands of songs and am slowly updating and remastering some of the older material for publication.

  I went to high school in Guatemala City at the "American School of Guatemala".  I used to play guitar on campus with my good friend Efrain Figueroa.  I recently wrote a song about my times in Guatemala.  This song has some of the elements of the type of music we use to play.

  I started recording music in the analog days before Midi and Digital Recording.  My first recorder was a Sony 4 track, reel to reel unit from a music shop in Hollywood.  Slowly progressed to a 24 track Tascam Reel to Reel and a 24 Mackie Mixer. The song "Cowboy" below was recorded on the Sony 4 track

Around 1989 I purchased a Korg T3 music workstation.  This was my introduction to midi. Suddenly I had 100's of sounds and instruments I could use for inspiration while composing.  The Korg sounds where rudimentary and are now dated, but allowed great experimentation.  The song: "Monkeys On Motorcycles On Mars" was done completely on the Korg Workstation. 

The song below was written while I worked for Universal Studios in Hollywood. During lunch I would grab my guitar and go into the stairwell and write songs because I loved the acoustics. This was the original raw recording of "Sayin' It From The Heart". Once I got most of the Lyrics down I recorded it on a small tape recorder with mini cassettes, the kind used for audio transcribing.  This song will be featured in my next Album scheduled for release sometime this summer.